From Hostmonster hosting’s cpanel X, you can find the backup tools and utilities. It’s a free tools included in every user account. You are adviced to periodically backup your site. The frequency of backup is depend on how often you make changes to your website. For my cases, where i update the website once a week, i will do backup after i make the new changes.
The website backup utility covering backup of your cpanel setting, and also database backup. For mysql backup, as an alternative, you also can use the phpmyadmin to backup the database through their export utility.
Its adviced that you copy and save the copy of the backup files in “.tar.gz format. For windows user, just save it as a normal file. And this is the file that you need to restore back your website in case of hostmonster server crash.
Although the server is daily backup by hostmonster support, its still not 100% fully guarantee of anything. We need to take account of human error as well. So, here is why the backup tools is in place to privide you easiest way to backup your website and database.
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